Indian duo Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa lose the second game to award the Gold Medal in the Women's Doubles Final to the Malaysian pair Vivian Kah Mun Hoo & Khe Wei Woon. India settles for a silver.

Badminton: Parupalli Kashyap is through to the semifinals of Men's Singles after winning Quarter-finals against Lew 21-13 21-14

18:18 IST Friday, 1 August 2014

Badminton- Parupalli Kashyap will play Daren Liew in the Men's Singles Quarterfinals. Set to begin shortly.

Meanwhile the second semi-finals was won by Nicola Adams of England vs Mandy Bujold of Canada in the Women's Flyweight category (48-51 kg).

18:06 IST Friday, 1 August 2014

BREAKING-Boxing Pinki Rani lost her match against Michaela Walsh in the semi-finals. Wins Bronze by default (losing a semi-final bout entitles Boxers to win a bronze as there is no separate bout for it).

Madhurika Patkar and Shamini Kumaresan against Joanna Drinkhall and Kelly Sibley in Women's Double Quarterfinals. Indians up against the English pair

FULL TIME- India beat Scotland.

Hockey- Indian Women go up against Scotland 2-1 through a Poonam Rani and Anupa Barla strike with both the goals coming in the second half. For Scotland Nikki Kidd was on the scoresheet.

BREAKING-TABLE-TENNIS Indian paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal is through to the next round. He won the third round 11-5, 11-6, 11-7, 11-4

The Shooting(18), Wrestling (13)and Weightlifting (10) events at CWG 2014 have concluded. A combined total 41 medals from these 3 events alone have formed the major chunk,

Hockey- Indian Men will face the Kiwis in the first semi-final clash tomorrow.

Women face Scotland in the Women's Classification 5-6 match.

Table Tennis- The Indian pair of Madhurika Patkar and Shamini Kumaresan will take on the Australian duo of Zhenhua Dederko and Ziyu Zhang in the Women's Doubles third round. Meanwhile, Ankita Das and Poulomi Ghatak have lost to Lee Wei Beh and Sock Khim BG

Boxing- In the Men's Lightweight Fly (49 kg) Manipuri Devendro Laishram has reached the semi-finals and is pitted against Wales' Asley Williams. Meanwhile 23-year old Pinki Rani will face Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland in the semis of Women's Fly (48-51 kg).

In the Women's Light category (48-51 kg) India's Laishram Devi will face Maria Machongua of Mozambique in the semis today.

After Yogeshwar Dutt (men's 65kg freestyle) and Babita Kumari (women's 55kg) produced fine gold medal winning performances, Vikas Gowda finally broke the deadlock in a jinxed athletics where India was left dry and was yet to open their account. The The 31-year-old US-based Gowda, elated the moods of many Indian fans as he picked up the yellow metal in men's discuss throw with an effort of 63.64m at a rainy Hampden Park. In what is believed to be a silver lining Dipa Karmarkar became the first Indian woman gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games by bagging a bronze in the vault event as she scripted history yesterday.

Pawan Kumar managed to secure a bronze in men's 86kg freestyle wrestling as the medal count in the Indian Wrestling purse only grew.

Disappointingly Geetika Jhakar (women's 63kg) proved no match for her Canadian opponent Danielle Lappage and managed a silver on the wrestling mat for India.The world junior champion wit much ease crushed the Indian grappler 7-0 to pocket the gold.

In the Women's Singles Indian hopeful P.V. Sindhu won comfortably against Sr Lankan Thilini Hendahewa 21-14, 21-14 in just 26 minutes. P.C. Thulasi defeated Canadian Rachel Honderich 21-12, 21-7 to move into the last eight.

High on confidence after the spirited showing against Australia, the Indian men's hockey team would look to win outright against South Africa in their final group match in Glasgow on Thursday, even though a draw is enough to seal their semifinal spot in the 20th Commonwealth Games.

19:24 IST Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Boxing: Men's Heavy (91kg) Quarter-final: Amritpreet Singh lost the bout to Stephen Lavelle of Scotland, and is out of contention for a medal

Squash: Indian pair of Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa beat Malaysia's N David and LW Wern 11-8, 11-5 in Women's Doubles Pool D. Read the full story here

India stands at number 6 on the list of nations in terms of the medals won in Glasgow. 36 medals (10 Gold, 15 Silver and 11 Bronze) have been won till now by Indian athletes in Glasgow.

Australia leads from the top as they have won a whopping 101 medals totally. No. 2 and 3 spots have been taken by England and Canada respectively.

Boxing The spotlight will now be on the boxers as they are yet to open their Commonwealth account. The competition will only get tougher as the matches are either in the round of 16 or quarterfinals stage.

Amit Kumar, Asian champion of last year started the haul with a 6-2 win over Welson. Amit ran up a 4-2 lead in first period and consolidated that further in second to complete the 6-2 victory.
19 Year old Vinesh Phogat brought home the second gold. Competing in women's 48 kg category she defeated England's Yana Rattigan 3-1 in the final.

The third gold was probably the most expected one. Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar was in its usual dominant self even though he competed in the 74 kg category this time. The victory was particularly sweet as he defeated grappler from Pakistan Qamar Abbas by easily pining him.

The day could have ended perfectly but Rajiv Tomar failed to emulate the feat of his fellow countrymen. He was outclassed by Canada's K Jarvis 0-3.

India's Lajja Goswami won bronze in 50 metre rifles 3 positions.

After the impressive show from wrestlers, India is now in the fourth position in the medals tally. India has 10 gold, 15 silver and 9 bronze currently. Australia is in the top spot with 30 golds. India's men hockey team lost 2-4 to Australia.

18:39 IST Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Indians have had a good outing so far and a brighter day ahead. 4 gold medal matches in Wrestling and 3 final events in Shooting.

Earlier it were the shooters who went berserk with as many as 12 medals for India (4 Gold, 7 Silver and 1 Bronze) and its not over yet. Harpreet Singh set to compete in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men's Finals and Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Finals and Manvjit Sandhu and Mansher Singh in Men's Trap Semifinals

The Weightlifters have impressed big time as the medalfest continued with an influx of 10 medals (3 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze)

India hopes that the Sports Ministry takes their medal-winning ability and acheivements into consideration and makes a sincere effort to hone their skills by providing better infrastructure, equipments and financial assistance to churn these sportspersons into world class athletes.

With the medal fest continuing for shooters, weighlifters are not far behind as a young Vikas Thakur produced in what is to believed as the lift of his lifetime to take home the silver medal in men's 85kg weightlifting, at 20th Commonwealth Games. Thakur lifted 333kg in a dramatic event, enroute his meadl-winning spectacular feat.

Indian shooters continued their dominance at the Barry Buddon Shooting Range with 'Pistol King' Jitu Rai and Gurpal Singh bagging a gold and silver respectively in the men's 50m pistol event in Glasgow on Monday.

With two easy victories under their belt, a confident India will face their first real test in the men's hockey event when they take on world champions and title holders Australia in the next group match at the 20th Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow on Monday.

Indian shooter Shreyasi Singh on Sunday clinched the silver medal in women's double trap event at the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, swelling the shooting team's overall tally to an impressive seven medals.

Omkar Otari continued India's power-packed performance in the weightlifting arena, clinching a bronze in the 69kg category to take the country's medal tally in the sport to six on the third day of the 20th Commonwealth Games. Besides, Rajwinder Kaur bagged a bronze in women's +78kg judo competition to add to the three medals that India have won in the sport. With seven more medals, India took their overall medals tally to 17 with five gold, seven silver and five bronze medals and were placed fifth on the medals table.

HOCKEY- India win 6-2 against Scotland in Pool A encounter

BREAKING - Scotland fight back with two goals as thet assert their presence in the game

GOAL NO.5 & 6- Raghunath and Rupinder Pal Singh score a brace each as India piles on a surmountable lead against mnnows.

GOAL NO.4 -BREAKING- HOCKEY- Its a goalfest as this time Gurwinder Chandi gets his name on the scoresheet.

GOAL NO.3 -BREAKING- HOCKEY- The Indians waste no time in adding one more goal. This time it is Rupinder Pal Singh who adds to the lead in a wonderfully converted penalty corner awarded to India just within the first two minutes of the second half.

Indians take 2-0 lead against Scotland in the first quarter at Glashow Hockey National Center in the Men's Preliminary Match in Pool A. Last edition's (2010) silver medal winners take lead through a first goal from Gurbaj Singh and then a V.R. Raghunath drag flick.

BREAKING-Indian shooters Apurvi Chandela and Ayonika Paul on top in the finals with 186.3 and 184.8 respectively.

TABLE-TENNIS- Indian Women Table-Tennis team beat New Zealand 3-0 to enter the semifinals at the Commonwealth Games Scotsoun Sports Campus. In the doubles category, In the doubles, Madhurika Patkar and Shamini Kumaresan made Yang Sun and Karen Li bite the dust as the Indians won with the same scoreline of 11-8 in all three games to give India the 1-0 lead.

Manika Batra beat Li in the singles match 11-13, 11-9, 11-5, 11-6 to make it 2-0 lead for India.

Shamini pasted Chunli Li 5-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 in a dead rubber tie.

Indian men's team will face Scotland in the quarterfinals and Indian Women will face Singapore in the semi-finals.

SHOOTING- Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela qualified for the 10-metre air rifle women’s finals as she smashed the Commonwealth Games record while countrywoman Ayonika Paul too qualified at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre here Saturday. Apurvi secured 415.6 points, a Commonwealth record and Ayonika finished an impressive fourth in qualification managing 413.2 points.

Star marksman Abhinav Bindra stole the limelight by clinching a gold medal while unheralded teenager Malaika Goel bagged a silver as shooters added two more medals to India's kitty on the second day of competitions in the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Saturday.

The 31-year-old Bindra kept his nerve to take the honour in his favourite 10 m air rifle event with a final games record score of 205.3 to bring cheers for the Indian contingent.

Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu bagged a gold and silver, respectively, in women's 48kg weightlifting in a display of overwhelming domination to open India's medal account on the opening day of the competition in the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Thursday.

20:16 IST Thursday, 24 July 2014

India launched their campaign in the 20th Commonwealth Games with a flourish with judokas Navjot Chana and Shushila Likmabam assuring the team of at least two medals while the paddlers, shuttlers and squash players had easy outings on the opening day of competitions. Read the full story here

The Indian contingent at the Commonwealth Games was left red-faced on Thursday after para-powerlifter Sachin Choudhary returned positive for a banned substance in an out-of-competition test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency last month. Read the full story here

18:33 IST Thursday, 24 July 2014

Jodie Stimpson of England has won the first gold medal in Glasgow, by winning the women's triathlon in 58 minutes and 56 seconds. Read the full story here

The Commonwealth Games 2014 are all set to kick off in Glasgow on Wednesday, July 23. The opening ceremony will be held at 1:30 am on July 24 in India. It will be telecast live on Ten Sports and Ten HD.

You can watch the opening ceremony here:

Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar is rumoured to play an important role in the opening ceremony. Sachin is the Global Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF and will be taking part in the ceremony in this capacity. His exact role however is not clear yet.

It will be the largest multi-sport event ever held in Scotland with around 4,560 competing athletes across 17 different sports. 71 nations will participate in the event which will see 4500 athletes competing, thus making it one of the largest Commonwealth Games to date. Comprising a total of 261 events, the Games will end on Sunday, August 3 with the closing ceremony. 'Clyde', a thistle named after river Clyde which flows through Glasgow, is the official mascot of the event.

This event succeeds the 2010 edition, which was hosted by New Delhi and mired in controversy. There was a scramble to get the venue ready for the Games in Delhi, but athletes still complained of poor amenities at the Games Village.

Whatever the truth, interest in the Games is significantly lower this time in India, but it might be aroused by the presence of Sachin Tendulkar at the opening ceremony.

Among sport disciplines removed from 2010 include the walking events in athletics, synchronised swimming and Greco-Roman wrestling, while mountain biking will be contested for the first time since 2006. Among new disciplines on the Commonwealth Games program are the triathlon mixed relay event, more shooting medal chances for women and women's boxing.